c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
"I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job." — Carroll O'Connor
"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma." — Eartha Kitt
"I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo." — Natalie Imbruglia
"Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included." — Jerry Saltz
"I had no idea of the size of my bank account as a teen, and I didn't care to know. That was my mom's job, I figured that I would just find out when I turned 18. If you can't trust your mom, then who can you trust?" — Anna Chlumsky
"You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing." — Leonardo DiCaprio
"I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy." — Yves Saint Laurent
"Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war." — B. H. Liddell Hart
"What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love." — Lady Gaga
"One of the things I like best about 'Biggest Loser' is being around people who are trying to make the right choices. When you feel defeated about your weight and your health, like there's no hope, and you still make the choice to fight for it, to make the change happen no matter what people say or think, that's inspiring to me." — Alison Sweeney
"Religious institutions should have religious freedom on this issue. No church or minister should ever have to conduct a marriage that is inconsistent with their religious beliefs. But I think as a civil institution, this issue's time has come and we need to move forward." — Kay Hagan
"The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus." — Minoru Yamasaki
"Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today." — Angela Davis
"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death." — Robert Fulghum
"The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow." — Bob Marley
"A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar." — H. L. Mencken
"A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical." — Conrad Black
"Work harder on yourself than you do on your job." — Jim Rohn
"The only source of knowledge is experience." — Albert Einstein
"Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know." — Joseph Roux
"Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done." — Burt Reynolds
"I also believe that it is time to begin the fundamental analysis of how we got here, what led us here and what we need to do in order to ensure that we are equipped with the best possible intelligence as we face these issues in the future." — David Kay
"Growing up, sports was my outlet, my way to portray a personality. I was very shy around people but, through sports, something I was good at, I was able to make friends." — Curtis Joseph
"But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools." — Jesse James Garrett
"There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave." — Louis Kronenberger
"Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity." — Christine Baranski
"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God." — Corrie Ten Boom
"It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone." — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." — Albert Camus
"My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious." — Bill Nighy
"All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner." — Red Skelton
"The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal." — William Ames
"I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do." — Joel Osteen
"A women's greatest asset is her beauty." — Alex Comfort
"Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen." — Robert Rodriguez
"Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work." — Ann Rule
"There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, 'How can you make a movie during an election that's about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people's lives?' To which my response was, 'Well, I hope so.'" — John Sayles
"My whole family's been in the business. My whole family is crazy." — Blake Lively
"To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people." — Alice Walker
"If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it." — Carol Ann Duffy
"I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it." — Victoria Woodhull
"Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike." — Margot Fonteyn
"Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian." — Emma Goldman
"I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers." — Armistead Maupin
"The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art." — John Lasseter
"To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?" — Jeanne Moreau
"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war." — Maria Montessori
"Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment." — Steve Albini
"Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you." — Austin O'Malley
"What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean." — David Cameron
"To live alone is the fate of all great souls." — Arthur Schopenhauer
"The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on." — Albert J. Nock
"I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals." — William Allen White
"It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?" — David Byrne
"Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences if they're not, he'll suffer for it." — Harry Browne
"To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship." — Wendell Phillips
"Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems." — Fredrik Bajer
"It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people to focus your energies on answers - not excuses." — William Arthur Ward
"Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes." — Dave Reichert
"I've never really broken this down before, but, in movies, you almost have no connection to fans. And if you do TV, you're kind of connected, but they know you as the TV name not your real name. If you do radio, there's more of a bond there. And then if you do a podcast it's like you're literally inside of your fans." — Adam Carolla
"I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me." — Kenny Loggins
"There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there." — Mike Figgis
"I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go." — Mikhail Baryshnikov
"I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist." — Thor Heyerdahl
"The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back." — Bryant McGill
"The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om." — Eden Ahbez
"To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive." — Jane Austen
"Wine hath drowned more men than the sea." — Thomas Fuller
"If you can't make it good, at least make it look good." — Bill Gates
"In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring." — Enid Bagnold
"The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history." — George Eliot
"I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it." — Lou Holtz
"In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home." — Leslie Banks
"A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant." — Ivor Novello
"No man's credit is as good as his money." — John Dewey
"For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority." — David Suzuki
"If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail." — Jeff Bezos
"My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles." — Emma Stone
"I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone." — Gerald R. Ford
"The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century." — Niklas Zennstrom
"He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles." — Harry Emerson Fosdick
"Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently." — Jeff Goodell
"I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music." — Thom Yorke
"There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: 'this is not happening in my backyard.'" — Michelle Bachelet
"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety." — Aesop
"I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world." — Taylor Caldwell
"Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution." — Jeff Sessions
"We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail." — Dave Barry
"We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words." — John Fowles
"Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive." — Margaret Mead
"I couldn't be an ingenue today, because the business has changed. I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or you're ridiculed." — Julia Roberts
"If I eat a huge meal and I can get the girl to rub my belly, I think that's about as romantic as I can think of." — Ryan Gosling
"There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of." — Julie Burchill
"God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with." — Billy Graham
"Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there." — Phillips Brooks
"Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: 'What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.'" — Bill Nighy
"Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition." — Mercy Otis Warren
"Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people." — Joseph Ratzinger
"The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad." — Steven Patrick Morrissey
"If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it." — Emma Thompson
"The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule." — Samuel Adams
"I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is." — Natalie Goldberg
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." — Thomas Jefferson
"Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool." — Esther Williams
"You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul." — Swami Vivekananda
"In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic." — Graham Swift
"Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions." — Orlando Bloom
"Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth." — Bradley Whitford
"There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source." — Brigham Young
"Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend." — Jim Harrison
"If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms." — Mike Ditka
"My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown." — Julie Burchill
"My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense." — Helen Gurley Brown
"Dreaming men are haunted men." — Stephen Vincent Benet
"The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices." — Richard Cobden
"Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain." — David Hume
"Education is the movement from darkness to light." — Allan Bloom
"A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves." — Dan Savage
"An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion." — Charles Baudelaire
"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them." — Mark Twain
"The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule." — Anita Brookner
"By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans' services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities." — Dan Lipinski
"Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny." — Candace Bushnell
"I still love doing what I do, and I'm really lucky to get up in the morning and want to go to work." — Heston Blumenthal
"On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away." — John Ratzenberger
"I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can." — Franz Schubert
"The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends." — B. R. Ambedkar
"I'm very conscious that I want the dance audience to respond and respect what I'm doing, so I'm always very true to the music and I honour the music in the way I see it - I don't mess around with the music." — Matthew Bourne
"In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion." — Frances E. Willard
"Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations." — Mikhail Bakunin
"I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh." — Larry David
"Other times you can get showy for three minutes, and that's OK with certain films. But that isn't right with an Ang Lee movie, you have to fit right in. You have to understand Ang, respect him and be part of the team and not be in charge of it - he is in charge of it." — Dennis Muren
"There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve." — Dick Cheney
"Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible." — Ray Bradbury
"It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it." — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
"World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole." — Barry Commoner
"Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man." — Thomas Paine
"A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it." — Samuel Butler
"When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two days to sort the issue." — Prince Andrew
"Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture." — Rita Dove
"Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world." — Walt Disney
"I will either be famous or infamous." — Otto Dix
"Language is the house of the truth of Being." — Martin Heidegger
"Why should 20-year-olds only be considered sexy? I think we get better with age." — Jenny McCarthy
"Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain." — Edward de Bono
"It's been amazing, the number of commercials that I've done, starting back in 1968. It must be 8,000." — Casey Kasum
"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person." — Margaret Chase Smith
"I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it." — Cate Blanchett
"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough." — Don Marquis
"I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships." — Hillary Clinton
"Of course, everybody makes mistakes, and we've all been young and stupid. But people need to have a sense of respect, particularly in this business, because hundreds of people are ready to take your place at any time. Maybe some people should think about that." — Sophia Bush
"Funny is funny." — Don Rickles
"Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority." — Vic Snyder
"English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street." — E. B. White
"As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind." — Cleveland Amory
"Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes." — Patricia Ireland
"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers." — Claude Monet
"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry." — William Butler Yeats
"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth." — Blaise Pascal
"Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business." — Jesse Ventura
"The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions." — Edward Norton
"One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know." — Groucho Marx
"Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven't done or some place that I've never been or don't even know. It's just gossip, rumors, egos, and politics." — Hilary Duff
"I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain's success - so for me there's no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation." — David Cameron
"Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies." — Ann Landers
"Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'" — Khalil Gibran
"I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that." — Ron Silver
"Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world." — John Polkinghorne
"I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world." — James Laughlin
"The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece." — Gilbert Murray
"It's such a long mission and we get to spend so much time in space... we're doing such exciting research. And I don't want to overemphasize the life science research, but as a physician the life science research that we're doing is extremely exciting." — Laurel Clark
"I hope there have been times when I made you all proud, or made you all smile or at least piqued your interest in this wonderful institution we call government." — John Rowland
"I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country." — Tony Blair
"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin." — Barbara Kingsolver
"The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place." — Matthew Sweet
"I feel fortunate I have this amazing relationship with so many people in America, because I was in their homes at a very private time of day. They probably might have still had their robe on and their slippers and haven't made the beds." — Joan Lunden
"Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning)." — Jerry Saltz
"I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear." — Oprah Winfrey
"And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous." — Damon Wayans
"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you." — Frank Lloyd Wright
"Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United States the foreign intelligence agencies would collect overseas." — Bobby Ray Inman
"The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job." — Dylan Moran
"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home." — James Madison
"If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success." — John D. Rockefeller
"Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart." — Scott Adams
"Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended." — Abdul Kalam
"The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity." — John Quincy Adams
"It's a funny old world." — Margaret Thatcher
"Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony." — Ludwig Wittgenstein
"Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling." — Henry David Thoreau
"I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story." — Beth Ditto
"In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade." — Evan Davis
"In the long term, the United States could greatly benefit Islam by uniquely freeing the religion from government constraints and permitting it to evolve in a positive, modern direction. But that's the long term." — Daniel Pipes
"Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view." — Cesar Romero
"We have to have a way of dealing with this that engenders confidence, trust, gives us every chance of getting the right outcome and boosts both sustainability and economic return at the same time." — John Anderson
"That knowledge which is popular is not scientific." — Maria Mitchell
"In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs." — Henri Bergson
"Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs." — Christopher Morley
"Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate." — Cliff Stearns
"I do think musical-theater actors can get a bad rap, and I see why. There is a certain slickness - there's nothing better than an amazing musical, but an okay musical can be one of the worst times you've ever had." — Laura Benanti
"In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life." — Chrissie Hynde
"I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read." — Jack Prelutsky
"Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature." — Dennis Prager
"When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years." — Frank Butler
"Beatbullying's 'The Big March 2012' is such a brilliant campaign and I am very proud to be a part of it. I have been a victim of cyber bullying myself and I know firsthand just how hurtful it can be. People think that they can hide behind computers and send nasty and hurtful comments to people, and this is wrong." — Katherine Jenkins
"As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven." — Douglas Horton
"Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas." — David Wilkerson
"Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction." — Daisaku Ikeda
"It's very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship - whether it's a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend." — Kathy Valentine
"Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong." — Jet Li
"You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know." — George Eliot
"I have actually five honorary degrees." — Katherine Dunham
"We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society." — Benjamin Carson
"An alliance with a powerful person is never safe." — Phaedrus
"If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it." — Ben Stein
"World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into." — Harry Browne
"I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself." — Stephen Fry
"If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day." — Julianna Margulies
"Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement." — Ron Lewis
"The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in." — Annie Lennox
"The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness." — Carl Jung
"I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone." — Christina Ricci
"Women's humor seems to be a little more supportive. It's just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I'm going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys." — Paul Feig
"One side of the American psyche wants smaller government, lower taxes, and more choices for individuals, even if those choices increase risk. The other wants a strong social safety net to protect the weakest among us, even if it costs more to minimize risk." — Ron Fournier
"I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is my dearest hope that we will produce some fantastic books together." — Jarvis Cocker
"Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul man cannot live in health without them." — Mahalia Jackson
"It's really hard for me to sometimes put myself out there, like 'Hey, how do you feel about making music together?' because maybe I'm afraid of rejection or I don't want to put anybody out. It's the Southerner in me, like, 'I don't mean to bother you but do you mind making a song?'" — Beth Ditto
"Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain." — Martha Beck
"Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity." — Yoko Ono
"I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting." — Britney Spears
"Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves." — William Graham Sumner
"Power ought to serve as a check to power." — Charles de Secondat
"The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them." — Bertrand Russell
"Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action." — Karl Jaspers
"I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration." — Jil Sander
"While conscience is our friend, all is at peace however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind." — Mary Wortley Montagu
"I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose." — John F. Kennedy
"It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges." — Bob Barr
"In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other." — David Mamet
"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done." — Andy Rooney
"When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'" — Brian Eno
"Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on." — Henry Rollins
"Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!" — Tommy Cooper
"Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!" — O. Henry
"Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with." — Brett Favre
"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it." — George Bernard Shaw
"There is nothing so stable as change." — Bob Dylan
"In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends." — Padma Lakshmi
"The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it." — Dale Carnegie
"Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years." — Ausonius
"Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature." — Gerard De Nerval
"Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be." — Shimon Peres
"I do not believe in God his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men." — Jean-Paul Sartre
"Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil." — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again." — Chester Brown
"I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up." — Mark Twain
"All oppression creates a state of war." — Simone de Beauvoir
"This was our last stop. This was it. We had those two embryos that we had banked prior to learning about the breast cancer, and with the medicine she was on, this was our last effort. The prayers were answered." — Bill Rancic
"You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there." — Dick Cheney
"Humor is the affectionate communication of insight." — Leo Rosten
"There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings." — Friedrich Nietzsche
"We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low." — Desmond Tutu
"Music and the music business are two different things." — Erykah Badu
"Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation." — Ronnie James Dio
"India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration." — Sri Aurobindo
"It's amazing how people will give when you don't ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message." — Joel Osteen
"The results of this survey are shocking and should be a wake-up call to men and women that drinking and smoking too much not only gives you a bad headache in the morning but can affect your ability to start a family." — Ann Robinson
"I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse." — Florence Nightingale
"We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments." — Theodore C. Sorensen
"As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead." — Andre Norton
"In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships." — Alexis de Tocqueville
"My parents were really, really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that." — Anna Kendrick
"A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company." — Charles Evans Hughes
"Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly." — Laura Dern
"Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't." — Jeanette Winterson
"The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has." — Confucius
"President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security." — Lee H. Hamilton
"My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go." — Barbara Corcoran
"Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic." — Ambrose Bierce
"It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace." — Andre Gide
"It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars." — Arthur C. Clarke
"As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art." — Albrecht Durer
"Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad." — Euripides
"When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear." — Buddha
"I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel." — Audrey Hepburn
"If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?" — Joan Baez
"I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage." — Jeff Bridges
"To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality." — John Locke
"My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art." — Jimi Hendrix
"I saw 'Taxi Driver,' and 'Taxi Driver' kind of saved my life. The scene where Robert De Niro is looking at himself in the mirror saying, 'You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Who the hell else are you talkin' to?' That's the scene that changed my life by changing my attitude about acting." — Michael Biehn
"If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love." — Princess Diana
"We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace." — King Abdullah II
"It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'" — Garrett Hedlund
"I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do." — Willie Nelson
"If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that." — Michelle Obama
"I've been singing for six years. I've been in and out of the studios with top producers, but it wasn't something I was ready to express to the public or to the press. I wasn't ready to come out. I wanted to perfect my voice and be 100 percent positive that I could come out right." — Tyra Banks
"You can be young without money but you can't be old without it." — Tennessee Williams